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Surely,thank you very much for this photo,while writing another news:
Effective from january20 2014 Italian CAA (ENAC) will suspend the AO ceritficate to Small Planet Airlines Italy( 2 B737-300,LY FLC,LY FLE)previously operating scheduled flight connecting GOA with TIA ,NAP and FCO as well as TIA with NAP and BRI,plus seasonal charter flights for several Italian tour operators...

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So another airline bites the dust as Small Planet Airlines goes under. Such a shame, especially having survived through the worst of the economic downturn only to fall as things start to improve. Very sad news.

So another airline bites the dust as Small Planet Airlines goes under. Such a shame, especially having survived through the worst of the economic downturn only to fall as things start to improve. Very sad news.

Has Small Planet actually finished trading? They seem to have an interesting set-up being a Lithuanian airline with Italian and Polish divisions with Italian and Polish AOCs respectively in those countries.

It seems the Italian AOC will be suspended but have the Polish and Lithuanian authorities followed suit?

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So another airline bites the dust as Small Planet Airlines goes under. Such a shame, especially having survived through the worst of the economic downturn only to fall as things start to improve. Very sad news.

Has Small Planet actually finished trading? They seem to have an interesting set-up being a Lithuanian airline with Italian and Polish divisions with Italian and Polish AOCs respectively in those countries.

It seems the Italian AOC will be suspended but have the Polish and Lithuanian authorities followed suit?

ENAC removes the license to the airline that the activities will cease at midnight tomorrow. Alitalia runs to the rescue of the tourists were without flight

ENAC has suspended the license of the aviation company Small Planet Airlines. From midnight on Sunday, January 20, 2014 will no longer fly in Italy. Tomorrow will therefore be the last day of operation. For this reason, many passengers who had bought tickets to fly from Monday went to Fiumicino to ask for additional information. Alitalia has offered to riproteggerli applying reduced rates.

"The decision was taken because - says the National Authority of Civil Aviation - have failed the requirements on the financial aspects for maintaining the license, as required by EC Regulation number 1008 of 2008." ENAC also states that, given the critical operativeemerse in recent times, had already imposed on the Small Planet, to protect passengers, "the sales quota of tickets no later than February 15, 2014." He would run out of money and could not have resources to continue to fly the company that makes connections with Egypt (Sharm El Sheikh, Hurghada and Marsa Matrouh, Luxor and Cairo) from Rome, Milan Malpensa, Bergamo, Venice, Verona, Turin , Bologna, Pisa, Naples and Bari addition to some domestic routes.

To rescue the stranded passengers to walk from Small Planet intervened when Alitalia discounted rates to reach, through the Group flights Cai, all destinations that were served by the charter company. Presenting a plane ticket to Small Planet (or electronic ticket receipt), travelers can buy a ticket on Alitalia and Air One to 69 € for the connections between Fiumicino and Genoa; € 79 for those between Malpensa Airport and Tirana, Tirana Pisa, Genoa and Naples. The discounted tickets can only be purchased at the ticket offices at the airports of departure of the flights indicated only on the day of departure or the day immediately preceding the departure of the flight. The special rate is subject to availability of place. ENAC also invites other companies to meet the mobility needs of the passengers of Small Planet "in order to facilitate the re-routing of travelers involved in the cancellation of the carrier suspended."

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